The importance of environmental heterogeneity for species diversity and assemblage structure in Bornean stream frogs

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 305-314

  Keller, Alexander ^a   Rödel, Mark Oliver ^a,c   Linsenmair, K Eduard ^a   Grafe, T Ulmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Primary forest; Southeast Asia; Tropical forest; Tropics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FROG; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORNEO; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BORNEO; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; PTYCHOHYLA;

EID: 59449090131     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01457.x     Document Type: Article

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